This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and follows its trails throughout the twentieth century. Encouraging both political and sexual liberation, Red Love was a transnational movement demonstrating the revolutionary potential of love and desire.

Table of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sex, Texts, Comrades; Ruth Barraclough, Heather Bowen-Struyk, Paula Rabinowitz1. 'To Be His Storm Over Asia': American Women, Sex and Revolutionary Tourism in Russia, 1905-1945; Julia Mickenberg2. Red Love in Korea: Rethinking Communism, Feminism, Sexuality; Ruth Barraclough3. Red Love as Seditious Sex: Bans on Proletarian Women's Writings in Australia in the 1930s; Nicole Moore4. Between Men: Comrade Love in Japanese Proletarian Literature; Heather Bowen-Struyk5. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing: Han Suyin and the Image of Asia; Daniel Sanderson6. Sexual Bohemians in Cold War America: A Minority within a Minority; Alan Wald7. Yoshiko & Yuriko: Love, Texts and Camaraderie; Tomoko Aoyama8. 'Night Must Fall': Desire and Development in Willard Motley's Let Noon Be Fair; Aaron Lecklider9. Love in the Labyrinth: Mexico's North-South Encuentros; Rosemary Hennessy10. Love Under Dictatorship: The Pleasures of Korea's Working-Class Women; Jiseung Roh11. Class Ventriloquism: Women's Letters, Lectures, Lyrics-and Love; Paula Rabinowitz12. Red Venus: Alexandra Kollontai's Love of Worker Bees and Women in Soviet Art; Maria ZavialovaList of ContributorsIndex